To access the system, you need to submit this form https://www.carleton.ca/cc/special-registration-form/ in order to create your account. Your personal account will then be created for you and you will be forwarded proper instructions on how to log onto myCareer.

The OCIB is an institutional collaboration of the Biology Departments at Carleton University and the University of Ottawa. Members have significant expertise in fish physiology, botany, entomology, computational biology, and toxicology. The OCIB facilitates interdisciplinary research collaboration between the two universities and external partners.

This year, the 10th Annual OCIB Symposium will be held at Carleton University on May 2-3, 2013.

This year’s theme Bridging the Gap is intended to address topics such as bridging the gap between biology and other areas of study, as well as between scientific research and the community through the use of media.

Graduate students are invited to present a relevant talk or poster at this event. Registration is currently open.

Registration details are available on the OCIB website.

This one-year term, in Ottawa, offers postdoctoral researchers an opportunity to conduct policy-relevant research in spatial epidemiology, micro-simulation, Aboriginal health, demography, or economics within an environment that is rich with mentoring and training opportunities.

For details, please visit this website.

Dr. Martin Geiger and Dr. Nduka Otiono are recipients of the prestigious Banting Postdoctoral Fellowships. They will both be at Carleton until  the summer of 2014.

Martin Geiger is working with Dr. William Walters in the Department of Political Science. He spent four years at the Institute for Migration Research and Intercultural Studies’ (IMIS) at the University of Osnabrück (Germany) – one of Europe’s leading research centres on migration. Previously, he worked at other research centres, including institutes in Spain, Italy and Romania. In 2011, he came to Carleton as a Visiting Scholar in Residence affiliated with the Institute of European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (EURUS) and the Department of Political Science.

Geiger’s current research focuses on the industries developing and marketing information technologies for the use of managing human cross-border mobility. This research area has recently become central to the Canada-U.S. Smart Border Accords and similar initiatives in Europe. Geiger’s work scrutinizes the effects of new technologies on the management of cross-border mobility and international relations and by doing this, provides recommendations of how adverse effects and democratic concerns can be better addressed and mitigated. Some of his publications include: The New Politics of International Mobility. Migration Management and its Discontents and also The Politics of International Migration Management (both co-edited with A. Pécoud, A.), along with articles in several prestigious journals such as Hommes & Migrations, Migration Letters and Migrations Société.

Nduka Otiono is working with Prof. Pius Adesanmi at the Institute of African Studies. He obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta where he won several awards, including the Izaak Walton Killam Memorial Scholarship. He was also nominated for the Governor General’s Gold Medal for academic distinction. He recently joined Carleton from Brown University, USA, where he held a one-year postdoctoral fellowship, worked closely with Chinua Achebe as Senior Research Assistant and was appointed a Visiting Assistant Professor. A fellow of the William Joiner Centre for War and Social Consequences, University of Massachusetts, Boston, his interdisciplinary research focuses on “street stories” or popular urban narratives in postcolonial Africa and how they travel across multiple popular cultural platforms such as the news media, film, popular music and social media. His research is informed by his background as a journalist and writer during the worst years of military dictatorship in Nigeria.

Otiono’s publications include scholarly essays in journals and books, as well as a volume of short stories, The Night Hides with a Knife, which won the ANA/Spectrum Prize; two volumes of poetry, Voices in the Rainbow, a finalist for the ANA/Cadbury Poetry Prize, and Love in a Time of Nightmares for which he was awarded the James Patrick Folinsbee Memorial Scholarship in Creative Writing. He is the co-editor of two anthologies: We-Men: An Anthology of Men Writing on Women (1998) and Camouflage: Best of Contemporary Writing from Nigeria (2006), and was founding editor of The Post Express Literary Supplement (PELS), and other literary supplements in Nigeria. He has been a member of the organizing committee of the annual Chinua Achebe Colloquium on Africa at Brown University, and also a member of the Board of Brown University’s Africana Film Festival.   

The Banting Fellowships are awarded to top-tier Canadian and international postdoctoral researchers at an internationally competitive level of funding. They are named after Dr. Frederick Banting who discovered insulin, enabling people with diabetes to live long and healthy lives. More information on the Government of Canada Banting Fellowship can be found at http://banting.fellowships-bourses.gc.ca/about-a_propos/index-eng.html.

Valued at 70K per year for each of two years, these awards are seen as the top Postdoctoral Fellowships in Canada.

Details of the eligibility criteria and terms of the award can be found at this site.

The commitment of the institution is of particular importance to the success of the candidate’s application. In fact, a unique part of this competition is “the synergy between an applicant (their individual merit and potential to launch a successful research-intensive career) and the host institution (its commitment to the research program and environment with which the applicant is to be affiliated).”

If you are interested, please contact your prospective supervisor over the summer months for help in preparing the application and Carleton’s letter of support. Your  application must be submitted on your behalf by your supervisor.

Many institutions have internal deadlines long before the November 2012 Tri-Agency deadline. Carleton University’s deadline is October 15, 2012.

Banting PDFs are not transferable between institutions and many institutions will have a pre-competitive adjudication phase. Only applications with institutional support are permitted to go forward. More information is available at this website.

Eli MacLaren

Alex Wong and Eli MacLaren, Postdoctoral Fellows at Carleton, are both Banting scholars. As the latest issue of Research Works notes, they are both adding prestige to Carleton.

The article is available HERE

Wong recently presented his research at the Science Café. A short video about his presentation is below.

Dr. Chazan with Carmen Charette, executive V-P, SSHRC

Carleton PhD student May Chazan has been awarded the $10,000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Postdoctoral Prize. This award is presented to the most outstanding postdoctoral applicant in Canada.

Chazan will draw on research conducted at Carleton University to continue her postdoctoral research with Mark Hunter at the Department of Geography and Program in Planning at the University of Toronto.

She has focused on the Grandmothers to Grandmothers campaign, which was started by the Stephen Lewis Foundation in response to large numbers of African children who had been orphaned by AIDS. She illustrated how the campaign positively impacted the lives of hundreds of South African women through their collective response to HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Chazan applauds the support she received while pursuing her graduate studies at Carleton. “I am extremely grateful to the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, the Institute for African Studies and the Institute for Political Economy,” she said. “So many profs and other grad students have inspired and mentored me along the way. I’ve had the tremendous fortune of working with an exceptionally engaged advisory committee of Mike Brklacich and Blair Rutherford from Carleton, as well as Belinda Dodson from the University of Western Ontario and Alan Whiteside from the University of KwaZulu-Natal. My supervisor, Mike, saw me through both my MA and my PhD and has been an incredible pillar of support.”

Chazan is also the recipient of the University Medal for Outstanding Graduate Work (Doctoral Level) that will be officially awarded at Carleton’s Fall Convocation ceremony on Saturday, Nov. 12 when she formally graduates.

In September, she received the Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada. The award is given to a woman of outstanding academic qualifications who is entering a career in scholarship or research at the postdoctoral level.

“May is both an outstanding scholar as well as an amazing and compassionate individual,” said Brklacich, chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at Carleton. “I consider myself very fortunate to have worked with her.”

Chazan’s postdoctoral prize was awarded at the 49th annual Canadian Association for Graduate Studies (CAGS) Conference held in Vancouver on Nov. 2. The prizes, which also included the SSHRC Aurora Prize and the William E. Taylor Fellowship, are among the Canadian research community’s highest honours.

“These prizes reward a commitment to the pursuit of knowledge and a dedication to innovative ways of thinking,” said Brent Herbert-Copley, vice-president, Research Capacity at SSHRC. “They honour the emerging researchers and future leaders who are working to enrich our understanding of Canada and the world.”

“Fostering the next generation of talent is important for Canada’s success in the future,” Herbert Copley continued. “Together we can ensure that Canada’s top talent continues to be recognized and supported.”

Each winner was selected by a rigorous peer-review process and prize funds will be directed to research activities.

SSHRC is the federal agency that promotes and supports post-secondary research and training in the humanities and social sciences. Through its programs and policies, the Council enables the highest levels of research excellence in Canada and facilitates knowledge sharing and collaboration across all sectors of society.

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For more information:

Lin Moody
Recruitment and Communications Officer|Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Affairs
Carleton University
613-520-2600, ext. 1146
lin_moody@carleton.ca

Vickie Iacobellis
Communications Advisor | Conseillère en Communications
Communications | Communications
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
Conseil de recherches en sciences humaines du Canada
vickie.iacobellis@sshrc-crsh.gc.ca
613-996-0520
www.sshrc-crsh.gc.ca

Eli MacLaren is a new Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton

Two researchers have been awarded the renowned Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship to pursue their work at Carleton University. The awards were announced Thursday in Toronto by the Honourable Gary Goodyear, minister of state (science and technology). Eli MacLaren and Alex Wong will each receive $140,000 in research funding over two years.

MacLaren’s research project, The Production of Canadian Literature, aims to develop and enrich the sovereignty that Canadians require to live well and intervene intelligently in world affairs. The ultimate aim of the project is to produce an eight-part book in which MacLaren will tell the story of Canadian publishing from its origins in the 18th century to today, demonstrating that many international factors have been central in the making of Canadian literature.

Wong’s project studies the costs and consequences of adaptation for organisms. He will attempt to come to a thorough understanding of the process of adaptation in order to confront a number of challenging issues, including biodiversity, climate change and the emergence of new diseases. These studies will provide an important contribution to our understanding of the evolutionary process, helping to predict the responses of natural populations to ecological and medical challenges.

“We’re proud to have attracted these stellar young researchers,” said Kim Matheson, Carleton’s vice-president (research and international). “They will be joining a rich, collaborative and productive environment with sponsorship in internationally renowned research units.”

The Banting Postdoctoral Fellowship program is designed to attract and develop top-tier researchers from Canada and around the world. Each year, 70 fellowships are awarded, with funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council.

“MacLaren and Wong are sure to flourish at Carleton and will establish themselves as independent researchers and scholars in their own right. Faculty and students alike who have the opportunity to work with them will benefit greatly,” added Matheson.

Brilliant Research. Brilliant Researchers

Carleton University is a dynamic, interdisciplinary research institution located in Ottawa-Canada’s capital. It has innovative programs in sciences, engineering, arts, and public administration and has realized partnerships with numerous public and private sector organizations. Its strengths have led to international recognition for its faculty, as well as an ability to attract outstanding students.